Arch Linux

ernia

Member

Registered: 2008-03-08

Posts: 27

[SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

I was using egalax touchscreen driver 2.06.2410 in my samsung Q1 :
http://home.eeti.com.tw/web20/eGalaxTou … Driver.htm
With the Xorg update to 1.6 version touchscreen stop working. If you want it back you can use this egalax_drv.so i got from eeti:
http://rapidshare.com/files/228797256/e … rv.so.html
Liquibyte and Kriblom kindly provided alternative (and probably better ) hosting:
http://www.liquibyte.com/driver/egalax_drv.so
http://dont-looze-touch.ovh.org/egalax_drv.so
It do worked for me using the 2.06.2410 driver and overwriting the old egalax_drv.so in /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input. I'm on 32 bit and i don't know if this do work in 64 bit too.

Last edited by ernia (2009-05-04 06:09:27)

liquibyte

Member

Registered: 2007-11-11

Posts: 91

Website

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

Can you post you're xorg.conf settings?  I've been trying to get this to work for a week now with no luck.  Almost but all I get is the click function but no movement without tapping and even then it's erratic.

liquibyte

Member

Registered: 2007-11-11

Posts: 91

Website

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

Actually I've just gotten it.  I'll just post mine in case it's useful to someone else.

Section "ServerLayout"
    InputDevice "EETI" "SendCoreEvents"
    Identifier     "X.org Configured"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
EndSection

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "AutoAddDevices" "False"
        Option "DontZap" "false"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    ModulePath   "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/misc"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
    FontPath     "/usr/share/fonts/Type1"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier   "Monitor0"
    VendorName   "Monitor Vendor"
    ModelName    "Monitor Model"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier  "Card0"
    Driver      "intel"
    VendorName  "Intel Corporation"
    BoardName   "Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller"
    BusID       "PCI:0:2:0"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier "Screen0"
    Device     "Card0"
    Monitor    "Monitor0"
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     1
        Modes     "1024x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     4
                Modes     "1024x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     8
                Modes     "1024x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     15
                Modes     "1024x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     16
                Modes     "1024x600"
    EndSubSection
    SubSection "Display"
        Viewport   0 0
        Depth     24
                Modes     "1024x600"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

### Touch Configuration Beginning ###
Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier "EETI"
        Driver "egalax"
        Option "Device" "usbauto"
        Option "Parameters" "/var/lib/eeti.param"
        Option "ScreenNo" "0"
EndSection
### Touch Configuration End ###

Editing for brevity.

Last edited by liquibyte (2009-05-03 19:54:42)

ernia

Member

Registered: 2008-03-08

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

Can you post you're xorg.conf settings?  I've been trying to get this to work for a week now with no luck.  Almost but all I get is the click function but no movement without tapping and even then it's erratic.

sorry, i've been disconnected all day long, glad to hear you got it.

nomis05

Member

Registered: 2009-04-16

Posts: 6

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

Hey,

i just updated to xorg 1.6 yesterday and my egalax touchscreen stopped working.

With the new egalax_drv.so everything is working fine again!!

Thanks for posting that.

Kriblom

Member

Registered: 2009-05-03

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

Hi !
I get exactly the same problem, but your file is no longer available on rapidshare.com

Can someone re-upload it somewhere ? ( I could host it, if needed )

Thanks !

ernia

Member

Registered: 2008-03-08

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

http://rapidshare.com/files/228797256/e … rv.so.html
i think that rapidshare deletes my files after 10 days because i'm not registered

liquibyte

Member

Registered: 2007-11-11

Posts: 91

Website

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

I'll host it here for a week or so but I can't keep it here due to the free nature of my hosting.

http://www.liquibyte.com/driver/egalax_drv.so

ernia, can you provide the link that eeti gave you?  I'm sure that would negate the need to host the file.

ernia

Member

Registered: 2008-03-08

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

they send me the driver in an email, it's a beta and they let me try it. when i've seen it working i asked them if i could share the driver in this forum and they answer yes, so i'm sharing it in the only way i know, with rapidshare. if you can host it with a more permanent solution i think that there will be no trouble from eeti.
anyway i could reshare the file everytime someone need it, the last link i've posted should work now and from other 10 days, and i think that eeti will put the driver in their website soon or later.

I've updated the first post with the new link

Last edited by ernia (2009-05-03 20:03:57)

liquibyte

Member

Registered: 2007-11-11

Posts: 91

Website

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

Eh, just link to mine then and I'll host it for now.  I'm not sure of the bandwidth usage but I've needed to upgrade my hosting anyway.  I'm thinking that unless there's a run on Q1U's in the near future I won't use all that much bandwidth anyway.  I just appreciate your sharing the driver because without it I wouldn't have a working toy for my girlfriend.  Now, if I could just get wireless with wpk2 and xvkbd working I'll be set.

Kriblom

Member

Registered: 2009-05-03

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

Thanks a lot !
It now works perfectly

I hosted it, http://dont-looze-touch.ovh.org/egalax_drv.so

Feel free to use it ! ( I think the amount of possible downloaders + the size of the file won't get my bandwidth too huge )

ernia

Member

Registered: 2008-03-08

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

Thanks for the hosting, i've update the first post with both links, let me know if you don't want host the file anymore.
@liquibyte
it seems to me that wireless work out of the box with my router with wpe and wpa with the standard kernel ath5k module and wicd as network manager, you shouldn't need madwifi anymore. xvkbd seems to work out of the box too.

lukav

Member

Registered: 2009-05-13

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

Hi all,

I have the same problem on ubuntu jaunty, but this driver didn't solved it
The driver loads in Xorg but still doesn't work.
Can you please tell me the version of your kernel, since the problem might be there

Thanks.

ernia

Member

Registered: 2008-03-08

Posts: 27

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

2.6.29
did you get it working previously? remember that if you want to avoid conflicts with your mouse you must put the exact device for your mouse in xorg.conf and not just /dev/input/mice.

lukav

Member

Registered: 2009-05-13

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Samsung q1 ( egalax ) touchscreen not working with Xorg 1.6

yes I had it working previously and I think my xorg.conf is correctly configured.
In the latest xorg version you can actually skip the mouse definition since most is done automatically.
But I''ll give it a try, thanks.